I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
![“Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b0/pete-seeger-1942_air_make-the-kind-of-music-you-love-even-if_2302441.jpg)
![“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7cb/pete-seeger-1942_century_my-father-urged-alan-lomax-not-to-repeat_2145424.jpg)
![“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
